Informal outdoor portrait of NX46355 Staff Sergeant (Ssgt) Alan Douglas Edwards, 2/20th ...

Accession Number P12521.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal outdoor portrait of NX46355 Staff Sergeant (Ssgt) Alan Douglas Edwards, 2/20th Battalion. Ssgt Edwards was aboard the Rakuyo Maru when it was torpedoed and sunk by the USS Sealion II. He died in the South West Pacific Area on 14 September 1944. This photograph is annotated on the back "Daddy leaving a shop".